When it comes to building flying robots, there's a lot to be learned from the beasts of the air. And researchers have -- we've seen robots inspired by the birds and the bees. The bat, however, is ...

In what might make an excellent sidekick for Batman, scientists have built a fascinating, unconventional flying robot that moves its wings and flies just like a bat.

If you've ever seen a bat in flight, you know how impressive their aerial acrobatics can be — so impressive that we have yet to successfully imitate it the way we have with locomotion or even ...

Robotics experts at Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a robot that mimics the flight patterns of bats, including swerving and diving.

Behold Bat Bot, the First Flying Robot Bat It mimics the flying mammal and doesn't even need to be remotely controlled.

WASHINGTON — Holy drone, Batman! Mechanical masterminds have spawned the Bat Bot, a soaring, sweeping and diving robot that may eventually fly circles around other drones. Because it mimics the ...

Caltech aerospace professor Soon-Jo Chung holds the 'Bat Bot' flying robot, which mimics the flight patterns of the actual animal. One of the problems with bats, if you're a robotics expert, is that ...

Robotics experts at Caltech and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created a robot that mimics the flight patterns of bats, including swerving and diving.

It's name is Bat Bot, or B2 for short, and it gets away with just nine joints. "Arguably, bats have the most sophisticated powered flight mechanism among animals," the paper states. The researchers ...